free. free. free. free volunteer video for your media project c.d.o. gondar t. dot com. until we do a better job communicating our values and building relationships we're going to be faced with this level of instability and as the testimony we've all been waiting for hillary clinton heads to capitol hill to account for her agency's actions during and after the attack in benghazi it was a day filled with drama but did anything actually come from the discussion will question more. buzz u.s. trade representative ron kirk has announced his plans to step down from host next month what this means for the trans-pacific partnership negotiations and american trade coming up they think they can and pursue and get away with this.

because the society is not on the side is the man known for creating mega have it on the internet now kim dot com is launching a new internet venture are to travel to new zealand for a one on one with this elusive businessman that interview ahead. good evening it's wednesday january twenty third eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching our team let's begin this hour with a big story out of washington today the testimony of secretary of state hillary clinton on capitol hill about the september eleventh two thousand and twelve attacks on the consulate in benghazi libya you might remember four americans were killed in those attacks including u.s. ambassador christopher stevens. as i have said many times i take responsibility and

nobody is more committed to getting this right i am determined to leave the state department and our country safer stronger and more secure and there are several interesting aspects of this including the timing as we know secretary clinton was about or was unable to testify last month due to her illness but several lawmakers have been calling for her to testify before the november election and said they were told they'd have to wait after the election after the inauguration essentially until what would be secretary clinton's final days in her post so what was really the point of having her testify was there one since it was after all after the election after inauguration a whole lot of lawmakers took the opportunity to sing her praises we thank you we thank you for your outstanding and dedicated service to this nation and we are proud of you i think we all do respect the tremendous amount of hard work that

you've put forth over the last four years you probably traveled more than any secretary of state and and history madam secretary you have represented our country with tremendous strength and poise i want to start by just thanking you for your remarkable leadership the secretary of state one of many stops in the million miles that you've traveled here interesting a whole lot of praise now i will say at times questioning did get serious legitimate points raised including by illinois senator dick durbin i do want to make one point for the record here about whether the american people are told everything right away in the right way so that they can be fully informed and i'd like to refer to five words for them to reflect on your rocky weapons of mass destruction. we were told by every level of government here there were lucky weapons of mass destruction the justify

a war the invasion of the united states we're still searching for those weapons. you see there that's an interesting response there from senator mccain and secretary of clinton who seem to be in part a muse by the notion that libya and iraq could possibly be compared here now there are other examples of what became a heated hearing at times lawmakers repeatedly questioned secretary clinton about one of the major issues here the question of security was a good enough why were requests for more security met with any action here was one exchange following our line of questioning. with specific security requests they didn't come to me i had no knowledge of them and i've been president at the time and i found that you did not read the cables from benghazi you did not read the cables from bester stevens i would have relieved you of your post i think it's inexcusable the question of whether the blame alternately lies with secretary clinton the nation's top diplomat remains unresolved but benghazi won't be her only

legacy take a look at this pew poll of other countries views of the united states it's clear the u.s. has risen in the esteem of most countries since the end of the george w. bush era however it's important to note if you look at that final column on the right it shows very clearly that the hype and the promise of the obama administration may have overshadowed its reality in many regions of the world. so will today's hearing result in any meaningful changes or is it just an opportunity for grandstanding on capitol hill of course as of now we don't quite know the answer to that but as always we plan to keep you posted. u.s. trade representative ron kirk has announced he'll be stepping down now during the run kirk's time in office he's overseen one of the most significant trade negotiations in recent history the trans-pacific partnership also known as t p p now his office has made an assurance that despite his departure p.p.p.

negotiations will continue in full force but we do want to talk this evening a little more about what those negotiations might entail first we'll give you a closer look at the trans-pacific partnership itself there are currently nine countries involved in negotiations at this time the united states of course australia doris allow. malaysia new zealand peru singapore and vietnam as well of mexico and canada now there are a number of things it would do here here's just a few first of all it would link those countries involved together in what would be designated a free speech zone also investor disputes could be removed from u.s. courts then there's a provision in which criminal sanctions for copyright infringement could be adopted and finally temporary reproductions of copyrighted works without copyright holders authorisation those would in the future be treated as copyright infringement for more on the trans-pacific partnership i was joined earlier by celeste drake trade

and globalization policy specialist with the a.f.l. c.i.a.o. now i started out by asking her so far just what's known about the t.p. and who would benefit from it. we don't know part of the problem is we don't know how much we don't know but what we do know there have been public statements there's information available on the united states trade representatives website there have been some leaked tax of and if they're correct they give you a. feeling of what may or may not be in it but in general it looks like it's going in the same direction as past u.s. trade policy specifically the nafta free trade agreement the captive free trade agreement the more recent korea free trade agreement and in those agreements the big winners are the multinational u.s. corporations some workers fair fairly well many workers found that they lost their jobs and that their wages were suppressed so in general it's sort of a you know the rich get richer and the poor get poorer type agreement so these

major corporations would be able to. outsource their those jobs to other countries a little easier some of the workers in this country. could see their their jobs lost that's a sure sign absolutely and that's what we're afraid of and we think that free trade can be great and could be really beneficial for creating economic growth for spring new development new investment new jobs but it really depends on the rules and if the rules for this agreement really follow the rules of past agreements it will do that and what it does particularly for investment and for offshoring is it gives a foreign investor rights in a country that a domestic investor doesn't have and allows them to take their disputes and their complaints over how the government has or hasn't treated them to these international arbitration forms rather than the u.s. courts of justice exactly it's interesting when you kind of take a look at the countries involved in that and i think a lot of people when they say you know united states and australia and then they

look at some of these other countries and i say you know this is an interesting mix here do you think the involved countries says anything about the negotiations and what's to be expected that. definitely and first i want to add that mexico and canada participated in our first round of negotiations in december so they are and they are in ok are definitely not but if you look at countries particularly like vietnam for many multinational corporations vietnam is the new china it's sort of the new export platform with even cheaper wages and in terms of labor in terms of factories ok exactly so we know that there's a big interest to sort of get economically into vietnam and if that creates good economic growth and good things for vietnamese workers that can be a good thing but if it continues sort of labor oppression wage suppression polluting the environment that's not really good for american workers or the people of vietnam i want to get your response because a lot of people look at the t.p. they look at what's going on and they say you know we are in twenty thirteen it's

a globalized world this partnership is about integration. talk about that sort of argument that's being used in favor of these negotiations well that's your economic integration can scare a lot of people it can make some people feel better but it really is sort of setting in place these rules that allow for these globalized supply chains a circuit board is made here. you know wires are made here there are some old in another place and again that all is not necessarily bad or good in and of itself but it's the profits from all of that how are they shared and how are they distributed and who do the world's really benefit and if it's really just locking in place the current model that's really corporate benefits and not much for workers then that wouldn't be good for workers a whole lot of people very unfamiliar you say p.p.p. they have no idea what you're talking about i want to lay out just really quick a timeline of sort of what's transpired so far regarding the transfers of

a partnership the u.s. first entered negotiations for the new t p p back in march of two thousand and eight. that was when president george w. bush was still in office. are there have been fifteen rounds of negotiations conducted and looking ahead just about two months from now negotiations will continue to take place in singapore so celeste just wondering you know what do you expect to take place in this next round we think the next one is going to be pretty critical there are some very controversial issues as you mentioned intellectual property investment there's also another chapter on state owned enterprises and it's a different many asian countries operate on a different economic model than the united states most of our large corporations are private and strictly private in asia a lot of them are heavily subsidized in integrated with the government and it creates an unlevel playing field and that's another one where the united states is proposing let's have fair rules of competition and obviously some of the countries that are in and afraid of the new model are saying no so of all of these very

critical and controversy all chapters if progress is made the agreement could be completed this year as ron kirk said is his goal but if not a lot of progress is made this thing may drag on well into the future any to any idea how the t.p. once it is completed will impact you know the average american the average malaysian or will it it will definitely impact average workers in all of these countries in ways that are sometimes subtle and sometimes not so subtle it may be that more of the products that you buy are stamped made in malaysia made in brunei than they are currently but it also if america continues to lose more of its manufacturing base that means it loses more of its tax base which means for public services there's less money and so less money going into schools and roads and libraries and all of the things that americans hold very dear so and it's not necessarily always easy to link those things immediately to trade agreements but

they do and there are other issues like what are your rights with respect to copyrights and patents food safety and are the food stuff that we're importing as safe as if they were made here these are all really. relevant questions important to working families in all of the countries i've certainly sat in on several hearings on capitol hill discussions regarding free trade it is interesting how often you get you know workers that used to be employed for example in auto manufacturing and to put in detroit the issue of trade is central to so many sectors of this society and it really has caught sort of changed the way our you know economy is laid out haven't you on the show very knowledgeable put this into terms i think a lot of people can understand celeste drake trade and globalization policy fresh alist with the a.f.l. theo well in the wake of those horrific shootings at an elementary school in newtown connecticut there's been a lot of talk about guns and the rights of gun owners in america it's a constitutional right after all as laid out in the second amendment but what

exactly did the framers mean when they said a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed a k forty seven after all didn't exist back then but slavery did tom hartman host of the big picture on our t.v. wrote this by the time the constitution was ratified hundreds of substantial slave uprisings had occurred across the south blacks outnumbered whites in large areas and the state militias were used to both prevent and to put down slave uprisings as dr bogost points out the slavery can only exist in the context of a police state and forstmann about police state was the explicit job of the militias eric foner is a professor of history at the club at columbia university and earlier today i spoke with him about the second amendment and whether this theory is an oversimplification or not. i think there's something to it definitely of course remember slavery would still exist existed in the northern states at that time it

was on the way out most of the states so and it was but it was pretty small so if you factor in the northern states the need for a militia to protect slavery doesn't really apply but i think in the south it's absolutely correct the white community was armed and they were armed to police the slaves that was essential in a slave society so the right to bear arms was something that white people enjoyed black people did not enjoy and slaves didn't enjoy it nor did most free negroes in the south so i think that has something to do with the passage of the second amendment it's not the whole story but it's an it is an important part how does the second amendment and interpreted when it was first ratified because it seems like we don't see these well regulated militias anymore and i know we don't have much of a militia we have a national guard but it's not like it was back then and the militia was not very well regulated most people who went to militia meetings they sat around drinking and playing cards and that was about it but the right to you know the right to bear

arms was important to americans in the context of a militia that's absolutely right you know they did not want to standing on me like we have today a large force of permanent soldiers the you know before the revolution people had been in these militias the revolution was started by militias up at lexington and concord and the idea was citizens would be able to defend their rights if necessary by having arms but you know that was a that was a legacy of the fight against the british a faraway monarch who the americans felt was you know was trampling on their rights once you have an elected government that represents the people then the whole role of a militia changes is no longer they have to defend the rights of the people the government represents the people so how it was interpreted is open to a lot of question but the main point is only very recently have the courts. i interpreted this as a universal right of individuals to own guns the second amendment it clearly states

that people should own guns within the context of being a member of a militia but very few people who own guns in the united states they are members of militias that will say why don't i mean here you're a historian i mean what made it change what you know change the public perspective as a whole what made the courts change the interpretation well the courts have only change that interpretation very very recently it's only in the last ten years that the supreme court which is very conservative nowadays has picked up this idea that there is a basic right of individuals to own guns irrespective of militias national guard and everything i think this is just an example of how the current supreme court has been pursuing a very conservative agenda in numerous areas and this is one of them. so you know the notion of gun control of regulations of guns was not controversial until rather

recently and there were you know many many examples of states and localities that have stricter regulations on guns it's only in the last ten years the supreme court has said no you can't really do that and say that's just a conservative agenda that has been adopted by by the currents of the supreme court we also have groups like the national rifle association they claim over and over again that they're protecting american second amendment rights would you call that claim historically accurate. well as i said the second amendment hasn't actually been a subject of a lot of jurisprudence until very recently. the national rifle association claims to speak for people you know many many americans own guns obviously they like to hunt they want to protect themselves the issues today tend to focus not on whether you should have a rifle and go out and shoot a deer or somewhere but whether people should have the right to own submachine guns assault weapons i don't think you can go after a deer with a k.

forty seven or if you do it seems like a fairly unfair way of hunting. so are you allowed to own any weapon you want i mean should people have cannons you know bazookas nuclear weapons the national rifle association seems to think there should be no limit whatsoever on the weaponry that an individual can you know amass in their home but that i think is not at all what the founding fathers when they put the second amendment in to the constitution did not envision people stockpiling large amounts of very dangerous weapons in their homes that's not what the second amendment is about professor farming adams's story and you are able to dick take the long view so to speak looking at historical trends what do you think is next for americans right to bear arms can history bring on any i think we've gone about as far as we can in the direction of every single person having arms and having the right to bear arms it seems that the. i would expect the pendulum to swing back

a little bit the tragic events we've seen in the last few weeks i think of shocked a lot of americans into a kind of realization of the danger of having so many guns just floating around the society as everybody knows we have what is it ten fifteen thousand people killed every year in the united states by gunfire some of that of suicide some of that is people assaulting other people some of it is accidental a kid picking up a gun and a half. and accidentally shooting it yeah last i read i think it was even as much as thirty thousand per year so whatever it is it's absurdly large it's far more than the number of americans who've been killed in afghanistan or iraq or in these wars and you know it's far more than any other civilized country in the world if you go to places like britain or japan or france the number of people killed each year with firearms may be one hundred or something like that it's not thirty thousand so i think there is

a growing recognition that this is gotten out of control i think you will always have people who like to hunt fine you know like to go to firing ranges and shoot but the tremendous proliferation of weapons is something i think that will have to be controlled certainly an interesting and important discussion to it's i have as you know conversation around guns continues to go strong here we appreciate having you on the show eric foner professor of history at columbia university thanks so much good to talk to you sure and here's something interesting there's been a rush on guns and ammunition of ever since the sandy hook massacre guns are big business it seems especially in nevada where tourists are increasingly flocking to gun ranges where they can shoot military style rifles artie's or mongol and that shows us how gun tourism is booming. thank you the sound the machine gun fire concert inside the gun store. las vegas is known as an

adult playground and gun ranges are increasingly becoming the choice for tourists this is not a shooting range as sort of museum of art many of these military style weapons are banned in other countries making it more exciting for international visitors every time i come to vegas i kind of enjoy this place. right now i brought my family for the first time. from an a k forty seven to an a r fifteen you can shoot pretty much anything you want here in las vegas people come from all over the world to sin city to fulfill their gun fantasies. this group is from italy and i think so and it's a huge thing worldwide that hands. that has exploded this this year in the last year we've had six. competitors open ranges offer various fantasies from zombie shooting packages to shotgun weddings gun fire entertainment is more popular

than ever that concerns gun control advocates you know there is a little bit of an issue though when you clamor ised the entertainment value it may trivialize the safety nature of guns because guns are a very serious. thing. but. recent calls for gun control have caused a rush for guns and ammo the public is likely or believes they're likely to lose the ability to buy certain types of guns that of course makes the public want to buy those certain types of guns now it appears in about his gun culture is becoming a bigger part of its tourism economy. in las vegas ramon the lindo r t i got our a story you'll see only here on our team kim dotcom founder of the file sharing website mega upload have a really big party on his nearly new zealand compound recently to celebrate the launch of his new site mega it was exactly one year after mega upload was shut down

by the government r.t. america was invited and decided to attend we sent our the web producer andrew blake and he was able to sit down and speak with kim dotcom and brings us this look. they com play me for the actions of parties here is internet pioneer kim dotcom holding court in his mansion but in the last year he has faced an entirely different kind of trial one year ago exactly kim dotcom was here it is house and co it's the new zealand when authorities came in on helicopters broke into the house arrested him for his assets shut down his website essentially put the rest of his life in jeopardy well for first few months ken was under house arrest which is usually quite difficult but then again when you have a hedge maze in your backyard i have magine that might not be all that terrible but i'm sure you didn't do it until january twentieth two thousand and twelve dot com was at the guest house of his mansion the most expensive property in the country

when local police conducted a high profile rest in cooperation with the f.b.i. the u.s. department of justice had just filed an indictment against dot com a german millionaire who changed his name from kim schmitz in two thousand and five and if they allege that the website he ran mega upload was a criminal enterprise a simple file sharing site megaupload allowed users to take large documents and send them around the world with ease d.o.j. described the site differently though instead encourage widespread copyright infringement that had duped the movie and music industry out of half a billion dollars i'm not successful because people have used my gob in order for copyright infringement and what everyone on the stand they have spin mess if amounts of the cheat him and uses it on megaupload you know you don't believe that fifty million with us today all just transferring piracy that's wrong a lot of people have used it to back up their data you know to send five acquitting to a friend so young artists have used it to get traction get downloads to get no when

you know there was a lot of the chid him and he was on they got off a lot later this year the justice department will attempt to extradite dot com his associates to the united states where they're they could be sentenced to decades in prison the extradition treaty is. it doesn't really allow extradition for copyright so what they did they threw some extra charges on top and one of them is rocketeer ing where they basically say we must. and we set up our internet business to basically. crime network that was set up and structured the way it was just to do criminal copyright infringement one year after authorities came in with guns blazing dot com seems far from defeated museum officials have largely consider the raid on lawful and he says the united state's case is falling apart day by day instead of just letting things pile up though dot com is determined to keep on going on the anniversary of his arrest in the seizure of mega upload dot com

unveiled his newest endeavor mega here from his coatesville home nothing about kim dotcom is small not his bank account or his size or even his parties but when it comes to unveiling his new project it's not even big it's mega when dot com launched mega over the weekend two hundred fifty thousand users registered with the site in the first two hours something he says is unheard of for a startup he has built from scratch all facing extradition but when you're kim dot com things rarely seem to be out of reach a few hundred people flew in from around the globe to help launch may go with an elaborate party included indigenous dancers pyrotechnics a recreate of last year's raid and of course an explanation of what is new site is all about just like his last project mega allows users to upload files and easily share them with others after having his entire life investigated by international authorities though dot com says is the term to make sure that anyone that wants to do business on the internet can do without being brought under the looking-glass if they come to attack us. it's just going to backfire except he like the megaupload

case that the shut down of all aside backfired already mess with me and it's just going to get worse for them if they think they can pursue this and get away with this. they are wrong because the society is not on the side everyone who uses the internet knows what's going on here one year after his arrest dot com maintains his innocence and blames the justice department and obama administration for ruining his business and leaving over two hundred employees without jobs at the same time though he cautions others around the world about the unlawful surveillance he says he was subjected to during the f.b.i. investigation that's one of the main reasons in fact that is news site mega encrypts everything privacy is a basic human right. but it is becoming increasingly difficult each to communicate private when he was entertaining guests with a live entertainment complimentary cocktails and for this reporter a ride in

a helicopter dot com uses party not just as a launching pad for mega but as a means to caution against what is becoming of the internet in the next five years dot com says he wants to have half of the web encrypted privacy is about much broader value. than just how these things it's supposed to shuman need for refuge from the eye of the community and houghton's opening taking the balance of power between individuals and the state. may god beliefs and your right to privacy also of course your right to party. from coatesville new zealand andrew blake r t how right everyone that's going to do it for now and for me that's going to do it for good after more than three years bringing you the news i am moving on to a new job i want to give a special sound out to my producers my news team adam.